Our comment thread indicates some confusion about the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling on the reconciliation bill that passed the upper chamber yesterday. To clarify: The changes in the Senate, which required the bill to return to the House, were tiny tweaks to the maximum Pell grant allowance under the More…
For the second time this week, the House tonight passed a health care reform bill designed to complement the larger reform package that President Obama signed into law Tuesday.
The vote was a technicality. The House had passed the bill Sunday night, sending it over to the Senate. More…
The count was 56 to 43 to tweak the large health reform bill signed by President Obama on Tuesday. Because the proposal was moving via the reconciliation process, the Democrats needed just a simple majority to pass the measure.
Minor changes to the reconciliation bill in the Senate More…
In short, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the health care reconciliation bill moving through the upper chamber this week will have to go back to the House. The New York Times reports:
Senate Democrats had been hoping to defeat all of the amendments proposed by Republicans and
The list of amendments that Republicans are hoping will derail the health reconciliation bill moving through the Senate this week is an entertaining read, if only because it so clearly illustrates the GOP’s strategy of forcing Democrats to go on the record to vote against some pretty odd things.
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Just off the phone with the offices of both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), where spokespeople outlined the Senate’s path to finalizing the health reforms passed by the House over the weekend. The rundown:
1) President Obama at 11:15 this morning will More…
With the House last night passing its health care reconciliation bill, the measure moves to the Senate this week, where Democratic leaders are claiming they’ve got the 51 votes needed to pass it. We’ll take them at their word. But just in case, it’s worth noting More…
What began as one of the most controversial issues of the months-long health care debate continues to be so: The public option — a government-backed insurance plan designed to compete with private companies — wasn’t included as part of the Democrats’ reconciliation bill, sending some liberals More…
Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform More…
House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were few and far between.
Rather than lending many specifics about the changes to the Senate bill, party leaders stuck with talking points about the general need More…
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